To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

Quote by Marcus Aurelius

Topics: Grief Quotes, Joy Quotes

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge,...

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge,...

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native...

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native...

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew...

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew...

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but...

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but...

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all...

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all...

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to...

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to...

Knowledge the clue to life can give: Then wherefore hesitate to live

Knowledge the clue to life can give: Then wherefore hesitate to live

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant...

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant...

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you...

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you...

Each day provides its own gifts.

Each day provides its own gifts.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that...

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that...